Calendar invites not being sent with system account, test e-mails work

The Basics

  • Nextcloud Server version (e.g., 29.x.x):
    • 31.0.2
  • Operating system and version (e.g., Ubuntu 24.04):
    • AIO v10.9.0
  • Web server and version (e.g, Apache 2.4.25):
    • Latest Apache Docker container
  • Reverse proxy and version _(e.g. nginx 1.27.2)
    • NGINX Proxy Manager v2.12.3
  • PHP version (e.g, 8.3):
    • Latest AIO Containers
  • Is this the first time you’ve seen this error? (Yes / No):
    • Yes
  • When did this problem seem to first start?
    • since the beginning
  • Installation method (e.g. AlO, NCP, Bare Metal/Archive, etc.)
    • AIO
  • Are you using CloudfIare, mod_security, or similar? (Yes / No)
    • Cloudflare proxy for external access but this issue happens internally when using the web GUI at cloud.domain.tld which is processed through NPM

Summary of the issue you are facing:

SMTP server is configured in Basic Settings and Test E-Mails work. Using Fastmail as the provider with STARTLS.

Mail Providers is set to System email account

Steps to replicate it (hint: details matter!):

  1. Create calendar event
  2. Add attendee by e-mail address
  3. Save event
  4. Go back to event and look at attendee list. Invitee status is “Failed to deliver invitation”

Log entries

{{"reqId":"FQTkC8hUphyYhDMUIcP3","level":3,"time":"2025-04-02T15:29:03+00:00","remoteAddr":"172.69.65.40","user":"user","app":"dav","method":"PUT","url":"/remote.php/dav/calendars/user/personal/61447C4D-4FBF-4F15-B612-67644EF1A467.ics","message":"Unable to deliver message to inviteduser@gmail.com","userAgent":"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/134.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/134.0.0.0","version":"31.0.2.1","data":{"app":"dav"},"id":"67ed5c5a25d4b"}

Configuration

Nextcloud

The output of occ config:list system or similar is best, but, if not possible, the contents of your config.php file from /path/to/nextcloud is fine (make sure to remove any identifiable information!):

{
    "system": {
        "one-click-instance": true,
        "one-click-instance.user-limit": 100,
        "memcache.local": "\\OC\\Memcache\\APCu",
        "apps_paths": [
            {
                "path": "\/var\/www\/html\/apps",
                "url": "\/apps",
                "writable": false
            },
            {
                "path": "\/var\/www\/html\/custom_apps",
                "url": "\/custom_apps",
                "writable": true
            }
        ],
        "check_data_directory_permissions": false,
        "memcache.distributed": "\\OC\\Memcache\\Redis",
        "memcache.locking": "\\OC\\Memcache\\Redis",
        "redis": {
            "host": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
            "password": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
            "port": 6379
        },
        "overwritehost": "cloud.domain.tld",
        "overwriteprotocol": "https",
        "passwordsalt": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "secret": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "trusted_domains": [
            "localhost",
            "cloud.domain.tld"
        ],
        "datadirectory": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "dbtype": "pgsql",
        "version": "31.0.2.1",
        "overwrite.cli.url": "https:\/\/cloud.domain.tld\/",
        "dbname": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "dbhost": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "dbport": "",
        "dbtableprefix": "oc_",
        "dbuser": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "dbpassword": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "installed": true,
        "instanceid": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "maintenance": false,
        "updatedirectory": "\/nc-updater",
        "loglevel": 2,
        "app_install_overwrite": [
            "nextcloud-aio"
        ],
        "log_type": "file",
        "logfile": "\/var\/www\/html\/data\/nextcloud.log",
        "log_rotate_size": 10485760,
        "log.condition": {
            "apps": [
                "admin_audit"
            ]
        },
        "preview_max_x": 2048,
        "preview_max_y": 2048,
        "jpeg_quality": 60,
        "enabledPreviewProviders": {
            "1": "OC\\Preview\\Image",
            "2": "OC\\Preview\\MarkDown",
            "3": "OC\\Preview\\MP3",
            "4": "OC\\Preview\\TXT",
            "5": "OC\\Preview\\OpenDocument",
            "6": "OC\\Preview\\Movie",
            "7": "OC\\Preview\\Krita",
            "0": "OC\\Preview\\Imaginary",
            "23": "OC\\Preview\\ImaginaryPDF"
        },
        "enable_previews": true,
        "upgrade.disable-web": true,
        "mail_smtpmode": "smtp",
        "trashbin_retention_obligation": "auto, 30",
        "versions_retention_obligation": "auto, 30",
        "activity_expire_days": 30,
        "simpleSignUpLink.shown": false,
        "share_folder": "\/Shared",
        "one-click-instance.link": "https:\/\/nextcloud.com\/all-in-one\/",
        "upgrade.cli-upgrade-link": "https:\/\/github.com\/nextcloud\/all-in-one\/discussions\/2726",
        "maintenance_window_start": 100,
        "allow_local_remote_servers": true,
        "davstorage.request_timeout": 3600,
        "documentation_url.server_logs": "https:\/\/github.com\/nextcloud\/all-in-one\/discussions\/5425",
        "htaccess.RewriteBase": "\/",
        "dbpersistent": false,
        "auth.bruteforce.protection.enabled": true,
        "ratelimit.protection.enabled": true,
        "files_external_allow_create_new_local": false,
        "trusted_proxies": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "preview_imaginary_url": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "preview_imaginary_key": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "mail_smtpauth": true,
        "mail_sendmailmode": "smtp",
        "mail_smtphost": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "mail_smtpport": "587",
        "mail_from_address": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "mail_domain": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "mail_smtpname": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "mail_smtppassword": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "default_phone_region": "US",
        "DOMAIN": "cloud.domain.tld"
    }
}```

#### Apps

Enabled:
  - activity: 4.0.0
  - admin_audit: 1.21.0
  - bruteforcesettings: 4.0.0
  - calendar: 5.2.0
  - circles: 31.0.0
  - cloud_federation_api: 1.14.0
  - comments: 1.21.0
  - contacts: 7.0.4
  - contactsinteraction: 1.12.0
  - dashboard: 7.11.0
  - dav: 1.33.0
  - deck: 1.15.0
  - federatedfilesharing: 1.21.0
  - federation: 1.21.0
  - files: 2.3.1
  - files_downloadlimit: 4.0.0
  - files_fulltextsearch: 31.0.0
  - files_pdfviewer: 4.0.0
  - files_reminders: 1.4.0
  - files_sharing: 1.23.1
  - files_trashbin: 1.21.0
  - files_versions: 1.24.0
  - firstrunwizard: 4.0.0
  - fulltextsearch: 31.0.0
  - fulltextsearch_elasticsearch: 31.0.0
  - logreader: 4.0.0
  - lookup_server_connector: 1.19.0
  - nextcloud-aio: 0.7.0
  - nextcloud_announcements: 3.0.0
  - notes: 4.11.0
  - notifications: 4.0.0
  - notify_push: 1.0.0
  - oauth2: 1.19.1
  - password_policy: 3.0.0
  - photos: 4.0.0-dev.1
  - privacy: 3.0.0
  - profile: 1.0.0
  - provisioning_api: 1.21.0
  - recommendations: 4.0.0
  - related_resources: 2.0.0
  - serverinfo: 3.0.0
  - settings: 1.14.0
  - sharebymail: 1.21.0
  - support: 3.0.0
  - survey_client: 3.0.0
  - systemtags: 1.21.1
  - tasks: 0.16.1
  - text: 5.0.0
  - theming: 2.6.1
  - twofactor_backupcodes: 1.20.0
  - twofactor_totp: 13.0.0-dev.0
  - user_oidc: 7.1.0
  - user_status: 1.11.0
  - viewer: 4.0.0
  - weather_status: 1.11.0
  - webhook_listeners: 1.2.0
  - whiteboard: 1.0.5
  - workflowengine: 2.13.0
Disabled:
  - app_api: 5.0.2 (installed 5.0.2)
  - encryption: 2.19.0
  - files_external: 1.23.0
  - suspicious_login: 9.0.1
  - twofactor_nextcloud_notification: 5.0.0
  - user_ldap: 1.22.0